Marie is also a poet and member of SFPA. Her greatest poetry accomplishment so far, besides placing second in the Hessler Street Fair contest, is selling a rhyming poem to a magazine that had “no rhyming poetry” in their guidelines.

She has an identical twin sister, Grace, who is an accomplished illustrator. (Check out our comics together!)

Marie met Brian Crick when they were both students at Case Western Reserve University. They were married in 2001 at his mother’s house in Vinh Long, Vietnam. They live in Cleveland Heights with his brother John, her sister Terrisa, niece Jennifer, and two cats.